Science
Slime Pays: AI Helps Grow Algae for Renewable Fuel
A new machine learning technique is boosting algae as a renewable, carbon-neural source of fuel for airplanes and other vehicles typically powered by fossil fuels.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
Machine Learning Research
Learning After Overfitting: Transformers Continue Learning After Overfitting Data
When a model trains too much, it can overfit, or memorize, the training data, which reduces its ability to analyze similar-but-different inputs. But what if training continues? New work found that overfitting isn’t the end of the line.
Tech & Society
Animal Animations From Video: ZooBuilder AI Tool Converts Animal Videos into Animations'
A video game studio is looking to machine learning to cut the effort and expense of populating three-dimensional scenes with animated animals.
Tech & Society
The Hammer Drops: Government Fines Company for Misusing Child Data
The U.S. government punished an app vendor for building an algorithm based on ill-gotten data. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the U.S. agency in charge of consumer protection, ruled that an app developed by WW International (formerly Weight Watchers) violated data-collection laws.
Letters
Presenting a Technical Concept? Use a Jupyter Notebook
Machine learning engineers routinely use Jupyter Notebooks for developing and experimenting with code. They’re a regular feature in DeepLearning.AI’s courses. But there’s another use of Jupyter Notebooks that I think is under-appreciated.
Letters
Knowing When You Need Help
AI Fund, the venture studio and investment firm that I lead, recently held a summit where CEOs and founders of portfolio companies shared ideas on topics from fundraising to building team culture.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch: AI Designs Chemical Weapons, AI Gains Cultural Awareness, New Chip Accelerates Transformers, Spotting Dangerous Mutations
AI Fund, the venture studio and investment firm that I lead, recently held a summit where CEOs and founders of portfolio companies shared ideas on topics from fundraising to building team culture.
Science
Spot the Bad Mutation: AI Model Spots Disease Linked Protein Mutations
Every gene in the human genome exists in a variety of mutations, and some encode protein variants that cause cells to malfunction, resulting in illness. Yet which mutations are associated with disease is largely unknown.
Tech & Society
Native Processing: Intelligent Voices of Wisdom Teaches Native Culture to AI
A group of media and technology experts is working to give AI a better understanding of indigenous peoples. IVOW is a consultancy that aims to reduce machine learning bias against cultures that are underrepresented in training data by producing knowledge graphs and other resources.
Hardware
Transformer Accelerator: Nvidia's H100 is Designed to Train Transformers Faster
Is your colossal text generator bogged down in training? Nvidia announced a chip designed to accelerate the transformer architecture, the basis of large language models such as GPT-3.
Science
AI Designs Chemical Weapons: Researchers retrained a system originally designed to discover new medicines to show that it could, instead, generate molecular formulas for poisons.
It’s surprisingly easy to turn a well-intended machine learning model to the dark side. In an experiment, Fabio Urbina and colleagues at Collaborations Pharmaceuticals, who had built a drug-discovery model to design useful compounds and avoid toxic ones, retrained it to generate poisons.
Letters
Welcoming Refugees
I’ve always thought that how you treat those who are powerless shows your true character. People rarely mistreat others who have power over them -- for example, their boss — because they might suffer adverse consequences.